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Jack Woodburn White (b. December 12, 1871, d. September 23, 1941)
Notes for Jack Woodburn White:Jack Woodburn White was the only son of Claiborne and Mandy (Shirey) White.Jack was a farmer by trade.He was a tall lanky, dark haired man when young.He got to be pretty good size man.He was known as "Woody".
Excerpt from Decatur News paper: "Mr. J. W. White and Ms. Fannie Walraven were quietly married at the residence of the brides father, (D.A. Walraven), on last Wednesday evening at 8:00 PM. 6-24-1896. (Actual day was 6-10-1896)
J.W. "Woody" White , according to his daughter, (Ollie White) inherited 40 acres and the Stage Coach Inn, in Audubon, Texas,from, his grandmother, Mary A. (Aunt Polly) Shirey.Woody and Fannie moved into this home, the log cabin, and started their family.The Jack White family survived the smallpox and flu epidemic which were killing so many people.
The White family left their land in 1923,when the top soil was washed away, and the land gave out,and moved to a farm 3 miles Southwest of Comanche, Oklahoma, to share crop.They raised wheat, cotton, pomegranates and popcorn.Woody's granddaughter Leatrice "Durham" Tims recalls as a child thinking it was fun to thrash the wheat, and Uncle J. Y. thought that they did such a good job that he told them to go to the barn and get a bag of popcorn for their hard work.They did and were so thrilled, until Uncle Stanley caught them and made them return the popcorn to the barn.
Woody died at his farm near Comanche, Oklahoma, of dropsy, (congestive heart failure) but is buried at Ballknob Cemetery, near Audubon, Wise County, Texas.
His family moved to a farm outside of to Ryan, Jefferson County, Oklahoma.The porch boards from the Stagecoach Inn in Autubon were used to make a porch at the farm outside of Ryan, Oklahoma.
Leatrice said you didn't dare go to the out house or go outside and yell chick, because grandpa had an old rooster, with long spurs and he'd get you everytime.
Leatrice said I remember grandpa, and remember when he died.He used to lay on the bed. You know they had their bed in the living-room and he had one of those straight back cane chairs, and he'd lean it back and turned up with pillows on it so he could breath.Ollie told Leatrice, that he died of congestive heart failure.She said don't you remember Fannie having to wrap his legs in strips to keep them from busting. I remember Grandma having to by Coke's on Saturday, because Grandpa had to have so many during the day.That was when Coke had cocaine in it, and he needed it for a pain killer.He's lay there on the bed and catch you with that cain as you went by.He was a neat old man he really was.I think they called it Brites disease back then.
More About Jack Woodburn White:
Burial: September 26, 1941, Ballknob Cemetary, Audubon, Wise County, Texas.
More About Jack Woodburn White and Fannie Elizabeth Walravin:
Marriage: June 10, 1896, Alvord, Wise Co., Texas [by Rev. Leusgerts].4870
Children of Jack Woodburn White and Fannie Elizabeth Walravin are:
- William Stanley White, b. February 28, 1897, Audubon, Wise County, Texas, d. April 15, 1982, Nursing Home, Ryan, Jefferson County, Oklahoma.
- J. Y. White, b. December 12, 1898, Audubon, Wise County, Texas, d. February 04, 1948, Jefferson County, (buried at Ryan, Jefferson County, Oklahoma).
- Author Jack White, b. December 18, 1900, Audubon, Wise County, Texas, d. January 29, 1957, Farm near Ryan, Jefferson County, Oklahoma.
- Dolly White, b. November 30, 1903, Audubon, Wise County, Texas, d. November 30, 1903, Audubon, Wise County, Texas.
- +Richard Clayborn White, b. September 19, 1904, Audubon, Wise County, Texas, d. October 07, 1979, Mt. Mesa-Lake Isabella, Kern County, California (buried at Delano, California).
- +Laura Mae White, b. July 18, 1907, Audubon, Wise County, Texas, d. November 17, 1983, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona.
- +Orville Alexander White, b. November 30, 1909, Audubon, Wise County, Texas, d. March 24, 1997, Norman, Cleveland County, Oklahoma.
- +Hazel Viola White, b. December 09, 1913, Alvord, Wise Co., Texas, d. June 04, 1975, Odessa Hospital, Odessa, Ector Co., Texas.
- +Ollie Matilda White, b. June 04, 1915, Audubon, Wise County, Texas, d. January 25, 1996, Southwest Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.